The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-25

the Department Of Cote dOr, France, riot
occurred the other day over the introduc.
ton Of Italian workmen, the villagers re-
senting this and attacking the men, killing
one and wounding FIVE others.
TIE total eclipse Of the sun was observed
at Boston on the 18th.
TIE Bank Of London, Ont, has suspended.
The capital was kl, 900, COO Assets were re-
ported ample
AT the reunion of the Eighty-seveuth Il
linois veterans at Enfield, Ill, on the 10Th,
two premature cannon explosions took
place. Two men had their arms blown of
and four others were fearfully burned.
THE 1nman steamship City Of Montreal,
from New York for Liverpool, was de-
stroyed by fire at sea recently A boat
containing thirteen of the passengers and
crew was reported missing. The rest, num-
bering about 400, were rescued shortly after
taking to the boats by the steamship York
City, arriving safely at Queenstown. The
fire originated in the cotton stored in the
hold.
Two passenger engines ran away within
the yards ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany at Philadelphia the other night, and
the engineers, named Morris Thompson and
Joseph Kelly, received what was thought
totally destroyed.
EDWARD A. JOHNSON, noted crook and
express robber who escaped from the Nash
vile (Tenn.) penitentiary, and for whom
large rewards were offered, was captured
in Cincinnati recently as he was coming
out of Sunday school mission.
REUBEN z. CLEMENT, the Leavenworth,
Kan, defaulter, has been heard from in
Canada. He expressed, in a letter TO a
friend, his sorrow for gong wrong and
promised to do better.
RIOT occurred the other day at Ken
mare, Ireland, and the mob attacked and
stoned the barracks where the police were
Quartered. The police charged with drawn
swords upon the rioters, lnjurlng many OF
them and arresting number
TAIMUR SHAH and two officers at Herat
have been executed by the Ameer of AT
ghaDstan for treason.
THE trial of Assistant Surgeon Crawford,
charged with criminal intimacy with Eva
White, the fourteen-year-o daughter of
DR.. White, Of Washington, ended in con
vlction, and he was sentenced to twelve
months Imprisonment.
A LETTER received u few days ago by
Rev. Father r. f. Healy, of Portland, Me,
from his brother, Captain Healy, of the
revenue steamer Bear, announced that he
had beached his vessel. constructed Golfer
dam, found the leak, replaced the copper
and gone on his northern voyage. The
rumor of the loss of the Bear is therefore
coutradicted by the Captains own report.
A SPECIAL from Little Rock, Ark, says:
Much alarm is felt by cotton planters on
account of the cotton worm, which has
made its appearance on the bottom farms.
Cotton is much damaged by drought, and it
is feared the worms will complete the ruin y
THE annual meeting of the National Press
Association which was to have been held
in Denver, September 6, has been post
poned because of the Impossbillty to Sc
cure rates.
AT Cincinnati recently Michael Hauck, a
timer, convicted of having presented bill
of $500 to the city infrmary directors for
mending roof of the infrmary building,
when in fact he had done no work at all up
on the roof, was given an indetermInate
sentence to the penitentiary. Ferdinand
Lindeman, a piano dealer, convicted OF
having paid Martin Brockman, city infrm-
ary, $3.50 to approve a bill for piano for
the intrmary at 300, was sentenced to one
year IN the penitentiary The lnhrmary
directors are in Canada.
PREMIER NoRQUAY, of Manitoba, who was
lately in Chicago, declares that province
will build what railroads it wants despite
the Canadian Pacific.
PORTLAND fish dealers speak highly OF
Admiral Luce's circular to fishermen and
of his other acts while in Canadian waters.
The race between the Galatea and the
Dauntless near Halifax, N. s., on the 18Th
ended in the Galatea being the winner on
account of her allowance, although the
Dauntless led her at the close about 100
wards.